A STEAM locomotive is returning to home turf when it arrives for a loan spell at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.
Great Western Railway steam locomotive No 3205 will be the guest of the Toddington venue until the middle of November.
Built at the Swindon works in 1946, it spent its first nine years at Gloucester, where it was used for local passenger work and freight trains on the lines to Ross, Hereford, Ledbury, Cheltenham and Swindon.
It also spent time at Worcester before being withdrawn in 1965 and acquired by the 2251 Preservation Society.
It is now the only surviving member of the 2251 class and pulled the first passenger train at the Severn Valley Railway in 1970. Since then it has appeared at preserved lines around the country.
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